Improved hand nail-driver for boots and shoes



UNITED STATES EDWIN HALE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED HAND NAIL-DRIVER FOR BOOTS-AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 80,477, dated July 28,1868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, EDWIN HALE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk andState of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Im-v provement inHand Nail-Drivers for Boots and Shoes; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with a hand nailer-tube(said tube having a weighted plunger) afeed-tube so arranged that thenails may be fed into the tube without removing the tube from the Work.

.Io enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and use.

In the drawings, Figure l is an elevation of my hand-mailer. Fig. 2 is asection showing the instrument with a nail ready to be driven and withthe weighted plunger ordriverdrawn up. Fig. 3 is an elevation oftheplunger.

My nailer consists,essentially, of a main tube, A, having a cylindricalchamber formed with a conical termination, as shown in Fig. 2. In thischamber the plunger O E H, Fig. 3, operates. I 1

Attached to the main tube A is a small hollow feedtube, B, connectingwith the main tube, as shown, through which the nail to be driven may bedropped.

The plunger E may be madeot' steel or iron,

battue driver proper, H, Eig. e, I make of the best Stubbsstee1wire,which I insertin a hole drilled for that purpose into the endof the plunger E.

My object in making the part H of the plunger of dil-ferent metal fromthe main part is to save the expense of nice steel, and also to make theinstrument easy to repair, for if the part H becomes worn or broken itcan be removed and a new one pnt in its stead.

To use my instrument I place the point of it on the article into which 1wish to drive the nail, and, drawing up the plunger, as represented inFig. 2, I drop a nail through the feedtube, which will fall of its ownaccord to the bottom, as shown at N, Fig. 2. It the plunger is nowdropped, the nail will be driven.

In practice I make the head O much larger than I have represented it inthe drawings, so that `when dropped it will have thenecessary momentumfor driving the nail.

Having thus described my invention, I will now proceed to set forth myclaim.

What I claim as my invcnt-ion,and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States,

The arrangement of the tube A, the feedtube B, and plnngerG,E, andH,substantially as and for the purpose described.

EDWIN HALE.

Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, HENRY EDsoN.

